History

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The Grimes–Mayo Chapter held its organizational meeting on November 6, 2005, and was confirmed December 2005, under Organizing Regent, Joyce W. Smith. The following nineteen daughters became organizing members as well as charter members: Mavis Brown Barton, Deborah Bowen Brown, Rebecca Goff Bundy, Naomi Brown Edwards, Mary Edmondson Gaylord, Harriet Ward Goff, LuAnne Goff Griffin, Shelby Nelson Hughes, Ann Whitehurst Johnson, Betsy Bunting Kennedy, Patsy Roberson Miller, Martha Rollins Poe, Jeannie Ross Price, Willette Brown Rollins, Ella Gaylord Ross, Joyce Whitfield Smith, Janyce Whitfield Thomas, Cinda Bunting Ward, and Mattie Brown White.

Ten of the above members are descendants of Thomas Grimes and two, Joyce Smith and Janyce Thomas, are descendants of both Grimes and Colonel Nathan Mayo.

Thomas Grimes and Nathan Mayo

Thomas Grimes (1738-1797) and Nathan Mayo (1742-1811) both owned large tracts of land prior to 1776 in the area of Tyrrell County, which in 1774 became Martin County, North Carolina. They were friends, neighbors, and in-laws when William Grimes, the son of Thomas Grimes, married Talithia Mayo, the daughter of Nathan Mayo.

During the American Revolution Patriot Thomas Grimes was a large supplier of goods for the Revolutionary cause.

Patriot Nathan Mayo served successively as a Captain, Major, and Commanding Colonel of the Martin County Militia. In 1777, he was instrumental in suppressing a Tory rebellion in Martin and surrounding counties. He was one of twenty-two Justices of the Peace appointed by Governor Caswell to reorganize Martin County’s government. He represented Martin County in the North Carolina House of Representatives (1778–1784) and served as a State Senator from Martin County, (1786–1791).

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